First, Beanie Sigel, reached Internet mainstream stardom today by dissing his former boss Jay-Z. Smart marketing, but what did he say?

Jay-Z

According to MTV, Siegel, (real name Dwight Grant according to Wikipedia) who’s part of the Roc-A-Fella records label with Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Jadakiss, has a long and rather sad history with Jay-Z, so much so that he’s essentially airing Roc-A-Fella’s “dirty laundry” in public.

His new musical riff, called “What You Talkin Bout (I Ain’t Your Average Cat)”, contains these words: “I’m a grown-ass man, I don’t sit on n—as’ laps/ I ain’t looking for no gifts out of Santa Claus’ sack. “How it feel to get exposed?” “Don’t you feel naked?/ I was a fly on the wall, sh– I witnessed/ I can say sh– that will make B look at you different.”

In the song Beanie Siegel says that Jay-Z reportedly called the Philadelphia Police to stop him from performing at the recent Powerhouse concert. I can’t find a confirmation of his claim as of this writing, but it’s clear something’s wrong because Beanie Sigel also says that Jay-Z did not visit him in jail (where he was for a probation violation) and will not return his calls.

This is a real sea change in their relationship, which goes back to 1998, when he was Jay-Z’s 1998 album Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life in a song called Reservoir Dogs. Since then he’s quit Roc-A-Fella, then resigned with them and brought several new artists to the label.

Jay-Z’s Twitter page has no tweet on his take on Beanie Sigel’s claims. Meanwhile, Beanie’s Twitter page (with just 937 followers versus 81,090 for Jay-Z), has this:

The richest man ain’t the one with his first dollar dog, its the one who still got his first friend, Rocafella for life, ITS THE ROC.about 5 hours ago from web

Stay Tuned as I monitor for Jay-Z’s response. Meanwhile, Lil Wanye’s giving a free download of his song “No Ceilings mix tape”. You can get it here. I continue to hold the view that Lil Wayne’s February sentence for weapons possession should be to make a song that tells people not to use guns: